Posted on 02/08/2008 6:05:09 PM PST by bullypulpit
A proposed wall or fence between Mexico and the United States has finally gotten very close to home for many local and regional landowners along the Rio Grande. No one—not even the government—has asked them what they think about the idea or what impacts such a barrier might have on their agricultural operations. The corridor is largely ranchland, and the owners are not happy, but neither are other agribusinesses.
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Tough. Border security comes first.
We need one page of these that are fronts and, one page of these for the backs, that we can print and cut, to fill the prepaid envelopes from the RNC and the ACU.
There will be a price to pay for supporting McCain.
We can vote conservative on Senate and House primary seats, and vote for anyone other than McCain on the Presidential seat, including a democrat in the general election.
When the Texas-Mexico landowners start caring about us having to live among millions of illegals I’ll start caring about their opposition to the wall.
BUILD THE WALL! The fed’s, have had to, go to court, with
the landowner’s, along the Rio Grande, in order to continue,
building the wall. The landowner’s, are holding it up and need
to put up, and shut up!
Whoa, now wait just a minute. This has suddenly gotten close to the landowners along the river? They never noticed that broken down fence with one piece of barbed wire on it before and had no idea what it meant??? Might I hazzard a guess that maybe it was them who knocked the fence down and cut the wire?
Oh, and now it's a "proposed" wall or fence - as in we're just talking about it rather than actually planning on doing anything about it. Thank you, Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R, TX).
Don’t worry landowners, the U.S. government isn’t real crazy about the idea either, unfortunately.
THat is a crock, written by someone that doesn't know spit.
Let these jerks foot the entire cost currently born by all taxpayers due to the costs of criminal aliens.
“Boo hoo, it’s going to cut down on our smuggling business.”
A few local land owners on the border do not get to decide national security issues or how many illegals the rest of us have to pay for.
Build the Fence NOW!!!!!!!!
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